James Joyce. 
 
Faber & Faber: 1966. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Jacket has smudges and scrapes along its edges, and there are two rips along the bottom. Red pen on the last 'e' of 'Wake' and old pencilled price on the back cover. Scuffing along the bottom of the boards and all the corners. Stain on the bottom edge of the textblock and a couple of specks on the other edges. The textblock, near the back board, is looser from the spine. 628 pages. Very good. 
 
Re-Joyce! With this endlessly punning and ever shfiting epic/dream narrative Joyce said everything that literature can say. All we can do is read in his Wake. 
 
"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay..."